Annotated 49-16
FB: You know how it is. You’re trying to fix up your jewelry or accessories to get things pretty for the god you like, and then he shows up early, all dirty and underdressed and shouting, “SUUUUP, BABE?! ALL ENEMIES BURN.”
With her gesture, Fr’Nj turns the narrative of the Battle of B’ial Vezk on its ear. Harky would have stolen Graiya’s Bough to summon Tectonicus. Fr’Nj offers her own bough freely, the focus of her own power, to Harky’s heir. She’s better at burying old grudges than even her sister. Perhaps her willingness to sacrifice it was enough to summon Tectonicus, or perhaps he was already on the way up. The blasphemy of the Tarozerker could’ve been motive enough. But she would have done it. Magda and Penk will not forget that.
Nice job from Flo on the SFX there.
Tarozerker not tagged.
Dunno what I’d do without you guys…fixed here and on 14.
It kinda seems as if the Tarozerker has so far not really done any damage except to eat his fellow purplezerkers. I mean, there must have been *something* in his way to where he is now, but so far I’ve only seen him munching on purplezerkers, nothing else. Which I guess makes him more powerful, but he could have done real, proper damage on his way, but instead he’s just undermining his own side.
…which, if I think about it some more, is maybe not actually his side. Maybe he does hate those purplezerkers even more than the humans he was terrorizing until not so long ago? After all, they did end his reign (in a way). Either way, he may have posed a real challenge to our heroes, but in the end I’d imagine it’s probably easier for them to get rid of him than to deal with all those little ones faster than they can keep spreading the disease.
He ends up eating a god.
I don’t think the mass of small individual purplezerkers would have ever managed that.
oh … another tiny detail I had forgotten since the original run… just ignore my ramblings then, I guess.
Purplezerkers started as people.
…and yet, the other purplezerkers seem to prefer to attack non-purple people instead of each other. So I suppose all the others do have some sense of belonging to a group, which Taro lacks?
Seriously?
Lemme ask like this:
If Taro has a choice between following some other person’s plan, or making himself more powerful, what’s he gonna do? :D